I can't add anything beyond what is available on a AMD or Intel motherboard. So is there a built-in HRNG that I can get to (if so, where is the driver for it)?
Thanks again, Chuck Wegrzyn Ken Goldman wrote: >>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:22:30 -0400 >>From: C Wegrzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>I have to generate quite a few random keys (and iv's) during a days. It >>comes out to about 1 million keys (16 bytes each) and 1 million iv's (16 >>bytes each). >> >>I tried using /dev/random and /dev/urandom but in one case it blocks too >>much of the time and in the other seems to run pretty slow. I tried >>using EGAD et al to no avail. So I decided to take a different >>approach. I am hoping to hear from others how they might have solved >>the problem. >> >>I thought I would take a hash of the message and using it as the salt >>call EVP_BytesToKey. I was wondering what others think of this solution. >> >> > >I've seen this approach: Use the hardware random number generator HRNG >to seed a pseudorandom number generator PSRG. Use PSRG to generate >random numbers. Each n random numbers, reseed PSRG from HRNG. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
